10 - oktober

Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin & Crypto Trading Bots, Blockonomi, 2021-10-01

“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.”
― Pedro Domingos

“Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal?, Off-Guardian, 2021-10-01

“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”
― Daniel H. Pink

Coinbase Reveals Massive Hack of User Accounts: Over 6,000 Customers Lost Funds, Bitcoin.com, 2021-10-02

“Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.”
— Bruce Schneier

Microeconomics and Fiat: The Bear Case for the U.S. Dollar, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-03

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”
—Henry Ford​ (1863-1947)

Edward Snowden Says Bitcoin Up 10x Since He Tweeted About Buying It, China's Ban Makes BTC Stronger, Bitcoin.com, 2021-10-05

“The better the money is at holding its value, the more it incentivizes people to delay consumption and instead dedicate resources for production in the future, leading to capital accumulation and improvement of living standards”
—Saifedean Ammous

The Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin, Calculated Using Sovereign Credit Default Swaps, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-06

"What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics."
― Umair Haque

Bitcoin, Group Biases and Illusion of (the) Authority, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-06

“Listen to your customers, not to the HiPPO,” HiPPO being short for “highest paid person’s opinion.”
― Pedro Domingos

Bitcoin Coming to Over 700 Commercial Outlets Across El Salvador via RSK-Integrated Kripton Market, Blockonomi, 2021-10-06

"The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency."
― Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

Edward Snowden Calls CBDCs 'Cryptofascist Currency' — 'Closer to Being a Perversion of Cryptocurrency', Bitcoin.com, 2021-10-09

"Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice."
—Evgeny Morozov

Facebook’s Outage Confirms Bitcoin Is Best With Decentralized Nature, Bitcoinik, 2021-10-09

“In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.”
― Rebecca MacKinnon

Vitalik Buterin: El Salvador's Bitcoin Approach Is 'Contrary to the Ideals' of Crypto, Decrypt, 2021-10-09

“Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center."
— Vitalik Buterin

Det digital-finansielle kompleks og Kinas kommunistparti, Midt i Fleisen,2021-10-12

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency"
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)

Geographic Distribution Data Shows US Takes Leading Bitcoin Mining Position After China’s Crackdown, Bitcoin.com, 2021-10-13

“Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.”
― Vaclav Smil

Schrödinger's Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-17

“The present is the only thing that has no end.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)

What Is Polygon (Matic) Coin?, Bitcoinik, 2021-10-17

“A non-Bitcoin blockchain combines the worst of both worlds: the cumbersome structure of the blockchain with the cost and security risk of trusted third parties”
—Saifedean Ammous

Could Advanced Quantum Computing Pose a Risk to Bitcoin Security?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-17

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Disney to launch NFT digital collectibles with VeVe, Ledger Insights, 2021-10-27

“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
― Neil Postman (1931-2003)

Teen bought Google ad for his scam website and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers, the Register, 2021-10-27

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)

Does The World Need a Declaration of Monetary Independence?, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-31

The Declaration of Monetary Independence

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
—John Perry Barlow (1947-2018)

13 Years Ago Today, the Bitcoin White Paper Was Released, Bitcoin Magazine, 2021-10-31

“I’m sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.”
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.”
— Satoshi Nakamoto

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